Life, 1909-11-11 · page 4 of 36
Life — November 11, 1909 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** for Life magazine itself, not political satire. The main illustration shows a stylized figure in elaborate dress, but its specific meaning is unclear from the image alone. The page announces an upcoming **Christmas issue** (arriving early December) and urges readers to subscribe to Life at $5 annually to receive this special edition. It emphasizes the issue will contain "an unprecedented number of pages" and costs 25 cents. A poem by E.R. Currier titled "This has just come in from a friend" appears to make a philosophical point about what humans can live without, but its exact satirical target remains **unclear from the text provided**. The page functions as a subscription pitch rather than political commentary.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
= To All Good and Bad Little Boys and Girls Also to all the grown-ups, and to everybody who hasn’t |, yet begun to think seriously of the matter, we desire to say: The MAS Number of LIFE will soon be here. It is due — to be exact — the first week in December. Now the point is here: You must subscribe to LIFE. If you do it now, this great number of LIFE, consisting of an | unprecedented number of pages of screamingly good text and ; pictures, will be included in your annual subscription. 1 The price of this Number is 25 cents. Better begin the year right. Obey That Impulse! | (Five dollars will doit, Send to LIFE, 17 w. 31 St.) Coming. Next Week — The Airship Dec. 2 (Out Nov. 30th)—The Number. A High Flyer. Greatest Christmas ; We may live without churches It will have an uplifting Number ever issued, either and sermons and prayers; influence upon you that here or abroad, — (See Weita) live: without razors and you never dreamed of. above.) No words can de- elma drink without water's When you see it you will scribe it. vash without soap, up in the air. : But ores ihe: meant whosean e . Dec. 9 — Book Number. live without hope? Week After Next — Musical Literary to the back, Number. Harmonious and column rule. melodious, without a dis- This has Just come in froma friend: We may live without airships To be followed by the Chorus r and automobiles; We may live in a garret and go without meals; We may live without home, without child, without wife, Bat where is the man who can live without LIFE? E. R. Currier Subscription $5 cord, All the latest news about the Opera, including real conversations on the side. Timely, tuneful and tumultuously hilarious. Girls Number, the Spinsters Number and the—well, that Improper Number is on its way We say this not without an inward shudder; bat i: the last number we ever issue we'll do it! Au Revoir. Canadian $5.52 Foreign $6.04 comicbooks.com